Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, who defeated Ibrahim Lodhi at Panipat in 1526, founded the Mughal empire in India. Babur was a descendant of Timur on his father’s side and of Chengiz Khan on his mother’s. On the death of his father Umar Shaikh Mirza, Babur inherited the ancestral kingdom of Farghana in 1494. On account of his precarious position in Central Asia, he after crossing the Indus, invaded India five times. The fifth expedition resulted in the death of Ibrahim Lodhi in the first battle of Panipat in April 1526.